Lawless

Season

2004

UK

7.5

DI John Paxton begins to question his job when a murderer walks free from court because of a legal technicality. His boss DCI Pete Chambers is equally disgusted by the outcome and plots the ultimate revenge - killing the culprit himself. Paxton refuses to get involved, but later discovers Chambers dead in his car - and ends up being the chief suspect for the crime and goes on the run - all the while trying to prove his innocence by finding the real culprit.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

A killer escapes justice on a technicality, and a senior police officer proposes that he and his colleagues take justice into their own hands. When the officer is murdered, the innocent DI John Paxton is blamed and goes on the run.

S1 • E2

Episode #1.2

DI John Paxton, implicated in the murder of his boss, is on the run, and trying to find the real killer, but Kinney, the only man who could help establish Paxton's innocence, has been drowned.